Eat more kelp: meet the ocean's favorite superfood

Want to help support the ocean through consuming a delicious and good for you plant? Then kelp is for you!

Check out these incredible properties:

Kelp is nutritionally dense (it’s loaded with potassium, iron, calcium, fiber, iodine and a bevy of vitamins); it actively benefits ocean health by mitigating excess carbon dioxide and nitrogen; and can provide needed income to small fisheries threatened by climate change and overfishing. “Kelp is a superhero of seaweed,” said Susie Arnold, a marine scientist at the Island Institute in Rockland, Me. “It de-acidifies the ocean by removing nitrogen, phosphorus and carbon dioxide, which we have too much of.”

👆That was me rudely applying the green emoji. I want to like kelp, honest I do, and I eat lots of green veggies and like 'em. But kelp... I can't seem to like beets either, and my DNA test says it's in the genes.

My family in the Northwest coast of Scotland has harvested seaweed to eat for hundreds of years and they seemed to live into their 90s. I tried it when I was there. It should be in my DNA. But 🤢.

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